if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Ecologists! I have received four sets of paper reviews back in the last month, and two had obviously AI generated reviews: @plos.org and @journalofecology.bsky.social. We also have reviews from @journalofecology.bsky.social that I strongly suspect were AI. Our peers are intellectually lazy.

If you are going to use AI to "help" you review, engage your brain and evaluate what the AI is flagging! It can't reason, and it is going to flag the things a 1st year grad might. Also, "internally inconsistent", immediate 🚩for AI use. Looking at you @journalofecology.bsky.social Reviewer 1.

Welp, just got an obviously AI-generated review back from @plos.org. Love that there was no disclosure and a students manuscript has been fed to the machine.

Oh NSF, for having the "best merit review system" you sure have problems with consistency!

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

18-29 year olds: bless your heart, you were duped so badly. From +5 to -51 (!!!)

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 10mo ago

NEW Economist/YouGov Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age 18-29: +5 | -51 30-44: -6 | -17 45-64: +12 | 0 65+: -4 | -16 today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Just in case you ever forget that #rejectionistherule this was the ranking on a grant declined yesterday by the NSF.

I was literally just thinking about this. You know how they could, but don't screen for testicular cancer? Wonder why? Your modern doctor doesn't mean to cause pain, but our technology is a legacy of ignoring women's pain and discomfort. AND mammograms are inaccurate and lead to painful biopsies

Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.

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Are you a natural resource or agricultural economics PhD or postdoc interested in real world policy work? Come work with CEPP's growing food team on quantifying subsidies in the dairy and beef industry! If not, pass the word! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/food-sy...

Food Systems Resource Economics Fellow, Stanford Law School in School of Law, Stanford, California, United States

*NOTE: This position has been deemed critical/has specific funding, has been approved by the Law School for posting, and is exempt from the hiring...

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Cutting until you hit something vital is the capitalist way.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone explain to me why the answer to "do more with less" is not simply "no." Adequate funding is required to do things. Physical objects cost money. Skilled workers cost money. "We'll cut your budget then!" Ok, you were going to do that anyway. And your strategic competitor is paying better.

Who is this article kidding? Error prone, probabilistic, hallucinating AI is coming for my University job!

Heather Shearer@heather-sea55.bsky.social · last yr.

#AcademicSky “Universities can no longer rely on scarcity setting the price for the curated and credentialed form of information that used to be hard to obtain.” theconversation.com/ai-is-drivin...

So many ecological processes are highly tied to VPD. Here, Atmospheric aridity strongly influences fire behavior.

Evan Frost@wildwoods.bsky.social · last yr.

"Vapor pressure emerged in our analysis as the dominant predictor of burn severity, pointing up the crucial role of atmospheric moisture in influencing fire behavior, and creating conditions conducive to extreme wildfires [in CA]." www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🌏

#terriertuesday #outoffocus Midge says "smile!"

The percentage of tasks AI "agents" are currently failing at may spell trouble for the industry... futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...

The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry

The best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff.

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You can't make this stuff up folks: retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

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A nice apricot sourdough loaf today #breadsky

Taught Fire Ecology for the first time this past semester. Just checked my course reviews: my work here is done.

For me, the biggest concern with these plants in the Sonoran basin and range is their transformative nature; increased fuel loads and continuity in a fire sensitive system during the pyrocene will transform the Sonoran.

Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · last yr.

"Once thought resistant to invasion, California’s deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. New research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert’s ability to recover from extreme climate swings." envnewsbits.info/2025/06/24/i...

Today a bronzed cowbird sang to me at very close quarters. One of the most bizarre bird songs I have ever heard from the gorgeous little parasite. macaulaylibrary.org/asset/45159

ML45159 - Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed) - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML45159; © Geoffrey A. Keller; Arizona, United States

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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Post an insect that looks like it's generated by AI, but isn't! I found one of these in my yard for the first time ever after being an Arizona resident for 30 years. Giant mesquite bug (5th instar; Thasus neocalifornicus) Glamor shot vs the one in my yard. #inverts

Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · last yr.

Post a bug that looks like AI but is actually real. (I mean, we could do this all day. All week. All month. All...) I give you the Small-headed Fly (Eulonchus sapphirinus) Yup. #inverts #becurious

#terriertuesday #terriertuned Midge's theme song is Donna Summer's "Bad Girl", deployed liberally when she is chewing something she stole underneath a bed

We have #nokings in #tucson #arizona

I still cannot get over a woman who shows up to a jungle prison in full glam make up complaining about “political theater.”

No words

Steve Herman@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

Sprocket; leopard gecko lady, Aged 12-13.

My partner is at a NASA event and someone just presented linear regression as AI and machine learning. Which 1) tells you where we are in the hype-cycle and 2) illustrates how woefully ignorant of statistics many parts of astronomy are